'Absolute nonsense': Columnist slams GOP over bill to ban 'playing dress-up' in schools

Texas Republicans are pushing a bill that would prohibit "non-human behaviors" in school — and it would effectively create a regime prohibiting kids from playing dress-up or just pretending in ways kids always do, wrote Amanda Marcotte in a scathing analysis for Salon published on Monday.

State Rep. Stan Gerdes introduced a bill, known as the Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education (FURRIES) Act, based on a years-long hoax that kids are sexually identifying as animals...